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Rosencrantz Quotes

Seven of the best book quotes from Rosencrantz
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“Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death?”
Tom Stoppard
author
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
book
Rosencrantz
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death
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first to know
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finding about death
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intuition of mortality
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“It never occurred to me at all. We must be born with an intuition of mortality.”
Tom Stoppard
author
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
book
Rosencrantz
character
death
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intuition
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mortality
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intuition of mortality
concepts
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“Be happy -- if you’re not even happy, what’s so good about surviving?”
Tom Stoppard
author
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
book
Rosencrantz
character
happiness
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being happy
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living
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choosing to be happy
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happiness in life
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“Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You’d have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I’m not dead.”
Tom Stoppard
author
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
book
Rosencrantz
character
death
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life
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perspective
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having chances
concepts
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“There must have been one, a moment, in childhood, when it first occurred to you that you don’t go on forever.”
Tom Stoppard
author
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
book
Rosencrantz
character
death
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realizing impending death
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impending death
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living forever
concepts
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“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where’s it going to end?”
Tom Stoppard
author
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
book
Rosencrantz
character
eternity
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end of eternity
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terrible thoughts
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thinking of eternity
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eternity ending
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“Before we know the word for it, before we know that there are words, out we come, bloodied and squalling...with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, there’s only one direction and time is its only measure.”
Tom Stoppard
author
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
book
Rosencrantz
character
time
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birth
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compass
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direction
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